When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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Gill's Exposition
For now we see through a glass,.... In this present life, they that are enlightened by the Spirit of God, see God, the perfections and glory of his nature, the riches of his grace and goodness, as…
Barnes' Notes
When I was a child - The idea here is, that the knowledge which we now have, compared with that which we shall have in heaven, is like that which is possessed in infancy compared with that we have in…
Adam Clarke
When I was a child - This future state of blessedness is as far beyond the utmost perfection that can be attained in this world, as our adult state of Christianity is above our state of natural…
Here the apostle goes on to commend charity, and show how much it is preferable to the gifts on which the Corinthians were so apt to pride themselves, to the utter neglect, and almost extinction, of…
Cambridge Bible
I thought as a child Better as margin, I reasoned. The same Greek word is used here as in 1Co 13:13, - thinkethno evil." See note there.
when I became a man, I put away childish things Rather, since I…
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